Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government will preserve information of deaths alongside birth registration.
The premier made the statement while addressing the inauguration ceremony of Digital Centre Entrepreneur Conference 2014 on Tuesday afternoon.
She said: "Besides the birth registration, information of deaths will also be preserved in future so that families of the dead can get the government's assistance particularly in holding the funerals."
Sheikh Hasina has said more than 11 crore people in the country are now using mobile phones.
"We have ensured access to information service in every union level of the country," she said.
Hailing the country's progress in the adoption of digital technologies, she said: "The people sitting in front of us are literally adopted the digital technology so fast, they are to be said the true digital generation of the nation and I believe they will succeed."
She also termed the digital centre entrepreneurs the "golden generation."
